The SLUSHPILE Blog

The Florida Writers Conference is October 23, 24 and 25. In other words, it is now less than two months away. I keep tabs on the official Conference website and am gratified to see Double Edge Press featured there in various posts. I was glad to see interest already in the workshop I will be [...]

Back in June of this year I had the dandy idea of advertising in the local newspaper. The results were that I sent out a lot of catalogs, sold a few books, and had several authors in the area that were previously totally unaware of my existence contact me.
One of these authors was Jerry Cypher.

Where [...]

Jim Spurr’s Sworn for Mackinaw, the first of his three book Great Lakes, Great Guns Historical Trilogy on the War of 1812 was the third book that Double Edge Press released. In other words, he came in quite early on and took an enormous leap of faith in what was no more than a start [...]

So much to blog about, so little time.
I’m beginning to get an understanding of why twitter is so popular. Instand headlines of what is happening with very little rhetoric. Alas, I can’t find the time to explore twitter and embrace this brave new world. So blogging will have to suffice for the time being.
I haven’t [...]

Lately, I’ve had to face the fact that I have a disease. The disease is called, “Extreme Pickiness” and I’m not sure how I caught it.
It only affects me in one area of my life: publishing.
I’m not picky about my food. I don’t care if my peas touch my mashed potatoes. I used to like [...]

When I did my prior post on China, I didn’t intend it to be quite so short nor mysterious. However, I find that my time is becoming more and more cramped and I blogged the majority of it while on the phone. I’ve never been a believer in multi-tasking. It’s my theory that the word [...]